SYSTEMS FOR RECEIVING AND FORMING MARKETPLACES FOR WORKING ON DIGITAL INFORMATION BLOCKS

• US 20110125801A1
• Filed: 12/02/2010
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Andrew L. Dirienzo
• Original Assignee: Andrew L. Dirienzo
• Inventors: DiRienzo, Andrew L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,407,254 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/791
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0611 Request for offers or quotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/20 for handling medical images, e.g. DICOM, HL7 or PACS
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

A remote access medical image exchange system utilizes a decentralized, i.e., self-organizing, distribution system combined with bid queues to establish a market place which allows for continuously negotiated prices with control (over who reads the images, when they are read and what the fee will be for such a reading) being placed in the hands of the patient/gatekeeper and the diagnostic physician.

Claims

1. A computer system configured by software to execute a method, the computer system comprising:

memory;

wherein the memory of the computer system contains;

a plurality of links to respective digital information blocks, wherein each of the links refers to a single one of the digital information blocks;

in association with each link, a bid amount; and

in association with each link, descriptive information; and

wherein the method comprises;

receiving, from a source external to the computer system, an electronic communication comprising information; and

transmitting at least a portion of an ordered list of links;

wherein the links of the ordered list of links are selected links of the plurality of links for which at least some of the associated descriptive information matches at least some of the electronic communication information; and

wherein the ordered list of links has been arranged into an order being determined responsive to at least the software and the bid amount associated with each of the links of the plurality of links.

2. A computer system configured by software to execute a method, the computer system comprising:

memory;

wherein the memory of the computer system contains;

a plurality of links to respective digital information blocks, wherein each of the links refers to a single one of the digital information blocks;

in association with each link, a bid amount; and

in association with each link, descriptive information; and

wherein the method comprises;

receiving, from a source external to the computer system, an electronic communication comprising information;

selecting those links of the plurality of links for which at least some of the associated descriptive information matches at least some of the electronic communication information;

ordering the selected links into an ordered list of links, said order being determined responsive to at least the software and the bid amount associated with each of the links of the plurality of links; and

transmitting at least a portion of the ordered list of links.

3. A computer system configured by software to execute a method, for arranging and transmitting a list of links, the method comprising the steps of:

storing a set of links, each link referring to a respective digital information block;

associating a bid amount with each link;

associating descriptive information with each link;

receiving an electronic communication comprising information;

selecting links in the set of links whose associated descriptive information includes at least some of the electronic communication information;

arranging the selected links into an ordered list of links, said order being determined responsive to the software and to at least the bid amount associated with each of the selected links; and

transmitting at least a portion of the ordered list of links.